Fantastic Ekphrastic ~ Écrire l’arrimage

Fantastic Ekphrastic, the Poet in the Art Gallery, a writing workshop with Diane Jutras

Saturday, 14 July , 6pm – 9pm & Wednesday, 18 July, 2pm – 5pm

Come to one or come to both!

The term *ekphrasis refers to a poem created by a poet looking at a painting.

Many famous and not famous poems and other literature have been inspired by or contain descriptions of visual works of art. This type of writing is called ekphrasis or ekphrastic writing.

Fishing NetDiane Jutras

On 14 July and 18 July, 2018 Diane Jutras, winner of the 2016 Nonesuch Art Of PaperGriffintown Awardfor best work by an artist residing on the Island of Montreal, will be offering an ekphrastic writing workshop ( free / by donation). Come to one or come to both. A selection of Jutras’ visual art will be on display and participants will use these as inspiration for their writing.

From a series of workshops in 2018 Jutras has an offer to publish a catalogue of the artworks alongside a selection of both the English and French poems they inspired.

The book will be launched at an exhibition in Pointe-Claire, Stewart Hall, 9 December, 2018. Opening performance by a graduate of the National Circus School.

In September 2019 there will also be a second exhibition at the Parc Lafontaine Gallery in Montreal.

*The word comes from the Greek ekphrasis, meaning description from ἐκ ek (out) and φράσις phrásis (speak) and the verb ἐκφράζειν ekphrázein (to point out or call an inanimate object by name).

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